High wind yield in recent days … but *not* a new all-time record
A look back over the strong wind farm production over recent days, to Monday 2nd September 2024.
high-speed wind cut-out
Weatherzone forecasts possibility of Wind Farm (high wind speed) Cut Outs
A Weatherzone forecast of potential high wind-speed cut-outs at some Wind Farms in the coming days will be of interest to some WattClarity readers.
Exploring aspects of Wind Farm performance in South Australia on Saturday 12th November – through the storm and into the islanding
In this article we explore the impacts on wind power generation as the storms passed through, in the leadup to the transmission line trip at 16:39 (NEM time, reflected in the market by the 16:45 interval) on 12 November 2022.
AEMC publishes draft rule change for Semi-Scheduled generators
Today (Thu 19th Nov 2020) the AEMC published a draft ruling following the AER request for a rule change relating to Semi-Scheduled generators … which itself followed from two COAG Energy Council requests to them
Case Study of 03:45 on Monday 15th October 2018 (aggregate Raw Off-Target +308MW for Semi-Scheduled units)
This is the 13th Case Study in this series (looking at each of 98 extreme incidents). We’re looking at an event on 15th October 2018 that seems to heavily feature high-wind cut-out as the primary driver for collective wind farm under-performance.
Factors contributing to events in NSW on Thursday 23rd January 2020 – taking a closer look…
Today I managed to get about half-way (only!) through some analysis I wanted to do to ‘scratch that itch’ about what happened in the NSW Region on Thursday 23rd January – with LOR2 conditions necessitating RERT (Reserve Trader) in the NSW Region.